UN spokeswoman (click here) puts estimate at around 35,000 people as US and Russia
announce ‘memorandum of understanding’ to ensure air safety.
20 October 2015
Tens of thousands (click here) have fled new regime offensives in Syria, according to the UN, as the total number of casualties from Russian airstrikes so far was reported to have reached 370, many of them civilians.
With the Russian bombing campaign now in its fourth week, Moscow and Washington announced on Tuesday that they had agreed to measures to ensure air safety over Syria, where a US-led coalition is also carrying out strikes.
The exodus was focused south of second city Aleppo, one of five areas where loyalist forces have launched offensives since Russia began its air war on 30 September.
“Around 35,000 people are reported to have been displaced from ... the south-western outskirts of Aleppo city, following government offensives,” said Vanessa Huguenin, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs....
As major powers in the world move together against Daesh as a common enemy one thing has to be realized about President Assad.
One of the reasons President Assad was facing civil war is because of the unequal ethnic distribution through Syria. There was oppression, but, it can be said Syria was oppressed as well. Syria lacked a strong conventional military and fell into the use of chemical weapons for lack of the ability to do otherwise. That can't happen anymore. Chlorine is not a good defense of any government.
President Assad ruled the coastal area of Syria where the Alwites lived. I can understand that and I can understand how Assad has a mission for Hezbollah as well, but, that has to end. Syria has to be stabilized. The Syrian people need to come home.
AND
There needs to be infrastructure projects that build dams and provide irrigation to farmlands.
But, President Assad has to come to terms of the incredible diversity of people that call Syria home. Oppression is not an answer. Setting up the Shia Crescent for chronic battles in order for the Shia to survive is completely wrong.
This is a premature discussion, but, Russia knows in order to have a strong stable government there has to be satisfactory lives for all those that live in Syria. Once there is stability in Syria, Russia and the UN have to engage in discussions that will bring about an inclusive government for Syria. If that doesn't happen Syria will repeat it's mistake and no one wants that.
20 October 2015
Tens of thousands (click here) have fled new regime offensives in Syria, according to the UN, as the total number of casualties from Russian airstrikes so far was reported to have reached 370, many of them civilians.
With the Russian bombing campaign now in its fourth week, Moscow and Washington announced on Tuesday that they had agreed to measures to ensure air safety over Syria, where a US-led coalition is also carrying out strikes.
The exodus was focused south of second city Aleppo, one of five areas where loyalist forces have launched offensives since Russia began its air war on 30 September.
“Around 35,000 people are reported to have been displaced from ... the south-western outskirts of Aleppo city, following government offensives,” said Vanessa Huguenin, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs....
As major powers in the world move together against Daesh as a common enemy one thing has to be realized about President Assad.
One of the reasons President Assad was facing civil war is because of the unequal ethnic distribution through Syria. There was oppression, but, it can be said Syria was oppressed as well. Syria lacked a strong conventional military and fell into the use of chemical weapons for lack of the ability to do otherwise. That can't happen anymore. Chlorine is not a good defense of any government.
President Assad ruled the coastal area of Syria where the Alwites lived. I can understand that and I can understand how Assad has a mission for Hezbollah as well, but, that has to end. Syria has to be stabilized. The Syrian people need to come home.
AND
There needs to be infrastructure projects that build dams and provide irrigation to farmlands.
But, President Assad has to come to terms of the incredible diversity of people that call Syria home. Oppression is not an answer. Setting up the Shia Crescent for chronic battles in order for the Shia to survive is completely wrong.
This is a premature discussion, but, Russia knows in order to have a strong stable government there has to be satisfactory lives for all those that live in Syria. Once there is stability in Syria, Russia and the UN have to engage in discussions that will bring about an inclusive government for Syria. If that doesn't happen Syria will repeat it's mistake and no one wants that.
